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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Interested Visitors Child Welfare Department at Farm Homes. What Is Being Done for the Boys

Robertson Mail · Friday 27 September 1929 · page 7
Also in The Southern Mail

Last weekend about 70 visitors from the Child Welfare Department inspected the Farm Homes, Mittagong, and were privileged to witness…

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Sewerage Farm Opposition to Site Selected

Robertson Mail · Friday 4 October 1929 · page 5
Also in The Southern Mail

There is considerable opposition to the site selected near Burradoo for the outlet to Bowral sewerage scheme. The matter has had…

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Dairy Supervision. a Change of Control

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 October 1929 · page 4

The transfer of the dairy inspectors form the Board at Health to the Department of Agriculture has been finally decided upon…

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Illawarra Cattle Good Sales at Melbourne Show

Robertson Mail · Friday 11 October 1929 · page 5
Also in The Southern Mail

The results of the special consignment of 28 head of Illawarra cattle exhibited and sold at the recent Melbourne Royal Show were reported…

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Dairy Farmers in U.s.a

Robertson Mail · Friday 11 October 1929 · page 4

Dairy products to the value of £128,000,000 were marketed through farmer-controlled co-operative associations in 1928. This is an increase…

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Dairy Supervision Transfer to Department of Agriculture

Robertson Mail · Friday 11 October 1929 · page 8
Also in The Southern Mail

In answer to a deputation from the Primary Producers Union which waited on Mr. Throsby, Minister for Agriculture recently to protest…

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Cattle Sections Combined

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 3
Also in The Southern Mail

The Berry Show Committee has decided to combine the Illawarras and Milking Shorthorns into one section for the next Show. This has been…

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New Butter Computing Tables

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

The old approved butter computing chart used by factories was based on a water content of 12½ per cent The law, both in Australia…

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Illawarra M.S. Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 4

At a meeting of the I M.S. Society a Kiama, the secretary, Mr. H. R. Bast, submitted a report on the team of cattle sent to the Melbourne Show…

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Dairy Supervision Act Transfer to Department of Agriculture

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 4

In answer to a deputation from the Primary Producers Union which waited on Mr. Thorby Minister for Agriculture recently to protest…

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Further Concessions to Farmers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 4

Probably no one, in the history of this State, has been more tireless in his efforts to relieve the burdens of primary producers than Mr. Thorby…

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The Rabbit in 1950 Clever Satire Written Ten Years Ago. Sheep Are a Pest to Growers of Fur

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 October 1929 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

Mr. O. Prior, of Bowral, recently brought to The Mail Office a ten-year-old cutting from the Sun, in which that clever journalist Bert…

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Farm Homes Competitions

Robertson Mail · Friday 25 October 1929 · page 3

On Saturday next the Senior and Junior Competitions at the Farm Homes will commence. A trophy is presented to the winning team…

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